linux-kernel - Re: Crash report: Broken NUMA distance map causes crash on arm64 system

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Date:   Fri, 2 Nov 2018 10:39:04 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        suravee.suthikulpanit@....com
Subject: Re: Crash report: Broken NUMA distance map causes crash on arm64
 system

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:01:05AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> On 31/10/2018 20:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:35:35PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > > [    7.154740] ERROR: Node-distance not symmetric
> > > [    7.154740]
> > > [    7.160724]   10 15 20 25
> > > [    7.163456]   15 10 25 30
> > > [    7.166190]   20 25 10 15
> > > [    7.168921]   10 10 15 10
> > > [    7.171655]
> > 
> > But I'm not getting the rest of those errors with my 'reproducer':
> > 
> >   kvm -smp 4 -m 4G -display none -monitor null -serial stdio -kernel defconfig-build/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append "sched_debug debug ignore_loglevel earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200,keep numa=fake=4:10,15,20,25,15,10,25,30,20,25,10,15,10,10,15,10,0"
> > 
> > [    0.828331] ERROR: Node-distance not symmetric
> > [    0.828331]
> > [    0.829081]   10 15 20 25
> > [    0.830079]   15 10 25 30
> > [    0.831079]   20 25 10 15
> > [    0.832079]   10 10 15 10
> > [    0.833079]
> > [    0.834373] CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
> > [    0.835082]  domain-0: span=0-3 level=DIE
> > [    0.836079]   groups: 0:{ span=0 }, 1:{ span=1 }, 2:{ span=2 }, 3:{ span=3 }
> > [    0.837082] CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
> > [    0.838081]  domain-0: span=0-3 level=DIE
> > [    0.839079]   groups: 1:{ span=1 }, 2:{ span=2 }, 3:{ span=3 }, 0:{ span=0 }
> > [    0.840082] CPU2 attaching sched-domain(s):
> > [    0.841080]  domain-0: span=0-3 level=DIE
> > [    0.842079]   groups: 2:{ span=2 }, 3:{ span=3 }, 0:{ span=0 }, 1:{ span=1 }
> > [    0.843094] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [    0.844076] kernel BUG at ../mm/slub.c:3901!
> > [    0.844083] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> > [    0.845076] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc8+ #305
> > [    0.845076] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
> > [    0.845076] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x113/0x160
> > [    0.845076] Code: 18 48 89 da 4c 89 e6 e8 db 01 c5 00 48 8b 45 00 48 85 c0 75 e4 e9 0e ff ff ff 49 8b 02 f6 c4 80 75 0a 49 8b 42 08 a8 01 75 02 <0f> 0b 49 8b 02 31 f6 f6 c4 80 74 05 41 0f b6 72 51 5b 5d 41 5c 4c
> > [    0.845076] RSP: 0000:ffffabc080633dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> > [    0.845076] RAX: ffff9f973fff8da0 RBX: ffff9f970000001e RCX: 00000000000000f9
> > [    0.845076] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9f963ea23c80 RDI: 0000606980000000
> > [    0.845076] RBP: 0000000000020ac0 R08: 0000000000023c80 R09: ffffffff9f8a10db
> > [    0.845076] R10: fffff17204000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff9f8a113d
> > [    0.845076] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffffffffa0ab4820 R15: ffff9f973e5bde00
> > [    0.845076] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f963ea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [    0.845076] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [    0.845076] CR2: 00000000ffffffff CR3: 000000008ea0a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
> > [    0.845076] Call Trace:
> > [    0.845076]  destroy_sched_domain+0x3d/0x50
> > [    0.845076]  cpu_attach_domain+0x378/0x680
> > [    0.845076]  ? update_group_capacity+0x20/0x2c0
> > [    0.845076]  build_sched_domains+0xde9/0xed0
> > [    0.845076]  ? set_debug_rodata+0xc/0xc
> > [    0.845076]  sched_init_domains+0x80/0x90
> > [    0.845076]  sched_init_smp+0x1d/0x63
> > [    0.845076]  kernel_init_freeable+0x101/0x23f
> > [    0.845076]  ? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
> > [    0.845076]  kernel_init+0x5/0x100
> > [    0.845076]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
> > 
> > I'll work on that crash though..
> 
> The actual crash callchain seems to be
> destroy_sched_domain()->free_sched_groups():
> 
> static void free_sched_groups(struct sched_group *sg, int free_sgc)
> {
> ...
>     do {
>         tmp = sg->next;
> 
>         if (free_sgc && atomic_dec_and_test(&sg->sgc->ref))***
>             kfree(sg->sgc);
> 
> ...
> }
> 
> *** crash occurs when free_sgc is non-zero and sg->sgc is NULL

Yeah, turns out to be random memory corruption; I've had the crash in a
number of weird places; also GCC version dependent.

KASAN is awesome and pinpointed the problem though.

> And, as I mentioned earlier, I bisected this problem to 58d5af59d55b.

You mean:

  051f3ca02e46 ("sched/topology: Introduce NUMA identity node sched domain")

right? and yes indeed! The below fixes my reproducer:


diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 9d74371e4aad..039578429c25 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -1337,7 +1348,7 @@ void sched_init_numa(void)
 	int level = 0;
 	int i, j, k;
 
-	sched_domains_numa_distance = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * nr_node_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sched_domains_numa_distance = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * (nr_node_ids + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sched_domains_numa_distance)
 		return;